Quite a few good quality fish were lost to the men in the grey suits with the Black Tip Reef sharks thick on the bottom for the majority of the month!

The weather has been outstanding which allowed us to make the most of the fishing on all of the grounds we regularly cover!

We mainly fished our local reefs this month as they were producing a vast variety of quality Reefies!

Some of the standout trips happened out on Chardons with a lot of quality Snapper on the bite.

North reef was also bringing up the goods with some nice sized Mulloway, Northern Bluefin Tuna, and also a mixed bag of other Reefies on the bite.

Weather and fishing was awesome, and meant that there were not many rest days for us fisho’s!

Not that anyone was complaining, all the Reef fish joined the party with Double Island Point being the standout fishing location by producing some really good quality Large Mouthed Nannygai 8-10kg, Gold Band Snapper 8-10kg and Snapper up to 7kg!

Also on the bite on all reefs was:
Sweet lip, Moses perch, pearl perch, Venus tusk fish, Teraglin Jew fish, Maori and greasy cod!

The Barwon Banks were fishing really well; The main species caught out there were Pearlies, Snapper, Teraglin Jew, and there was some really nice sized Venus Tusk Fish about.

Most of the action with the bigger Snapper happenned on soft plastics!

The local reefs such as Chardons and North Reef also produced some decent sized reefies with the added bonus of Cobia & Mulloway Jewfish!

To sum it up, all in all it was a pretty good month!

With the Whales migrating north there was quite a lot of excitement going on with each trip; we are very lucky to be able to combine fishing with chance Whale watching through the winter months! The majority of trips have Whale sightings!

The month finished up with quite a lot of wind and trips were few and far between.

Some of the species caught this month included:
teraglin jewfish, cobia, moses perch, pearl perch, snapper, Jewfish, hussar, venus tusk fish, Maori cod, scarlet sea perch, red emperor and the odd northern bluefin tuna.

The fishing was a little touch and go at the start of this month; With some of the reefs producing loads one day and close to nothing the next. North Reef started to produce a few good size Snapper toward the end of the month mostly 3-6 kg.

In general the outer reefs were producing more consistently, and with a few night charters under our belt for the month we seemed to get in quite a few high energy trips!

The big knobbies that were about this time last year seem to be hiding away. But the big Amber Jack are doing their part to excite the customers!

Some of the species caught this month include: snapper, moses perch, pearl perch, teraglin jewfish and venus tusk fish, Sweet Lip, Red throat emperor, hussar, Maori cod, gold spot wrasse, cobia, mackerel tuna and the odd amberjack.

Early in the month the conditions were a little ugly. North Reef was still producing.

By mid month we were doing a few trips to ‘The Banks’ and coming across some great catch!

The month just kept getting better and we managed to bag quite a variety of fish with plenty of Pelaigics still ablout as well as some quality Reef species!

There were quite a few memorable catches this month with a couple of Yellowtail Kigfish (up to 12kg), and some good size (as pictured, 12kg) Spanish Mackerel about!

Some of the species caught this month: Spanish Mackerel, Squire, Moses Perch, Venus Tusk fish, Morwong, Scarlet Sea Perch, Cobia, Snapper, Maori Cod, Pearl Perch, Sweet Lip, Hussar, Amber Jack, Red Emperor, Yellow Tail Kingfish and Coral Trout!

Quite a good month, with more than average sized fish being caught all round.

The fishing at the start of the month was best close in (up to 40km’s offshore).

The Banks started to produce some great quality fish by mid month and when the ‘Yachties’ came out on the 13th for their night charter they certainly had a few good fish on board.

Chardons was also producing well toward the end of the month with a good variety of reef species being bagged by our customers.

Some of the species caught this month included:

Snapper up to around 4kg, Sweet Lip, Venus Tusk Fish, Maori Cod, Moses Perch , Pearl Perch, Mowong, Amber Jack (as pictured!), Cobia, Scarlet Sea Perch, Coral Trout and the odd Spanish Mackerel.

With the weather easing up a little we were able to get in a few good trips and some of them out wide!

The Banks and DI were fishing well with a mixed bag of Pelagics and nice Scarlet and snapper, not to mention loads of other reef species on the bite.

The Reef species presenting themselves already make for a promising winter fishing season!

25kg Spanish Mackeral

This month had some very productive days targeting the Mackeral out at Sunshine, Chardons and North Reef. Again the Spanish Mackeral were about in great force and made for some exhilerating fishing.

Some of the species caught this month:

Hussar, Maori Cod, Coral Sea Bream, Rosey Jobfish, Green Jobfish, Red Throat Emperor, Spangled Emperor, Yellow fin Tuna, Gold Spot Wrasse, Amber Jack, Mahi Mahi, Sweet lip Moses Perch, Venus Tusk fish.